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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Unterstanding gateway-mode - why do nodes have a
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On Saturday, January 05, 2013 07:28:20 NicoEch=E1niz wrote:
> >> One other change that might be interesting would be the addition of a
> >> setting for how much the advertised throughput affects gw selection.
> >> I've seen Jan uses 96/96Mbit as advertised throughput on one router; I
> >> do the same on our "main gateway", but maybe it would be better if we
> >> could actually advertise the real throughput and have a setting to
> >> control how much the bandwidth difference affects the selection.
> >=20
> > Again, feel free to propose something which can be discussed.
>=20
> It could just be implemented as a new setting like: gw_bw_weight
>=20
> which would regulate how much gw bandwidth/throughput affects best gw
> calculation.
>=20
> I don't know what's the current algorithm but I guess there would be no
> problem with backwards compatibility here; if the value is not set, the
> default should produce the same result we get now.
>
> [..]
>=20
> I like this better than gateway classes that Jan proposed, as it is less
> implementation specific.

How about you and Jan discuss the matter to come up with a combined proposa=
l=20
which solves both your problems ?


> PS: Marek, there are mismatched parenthesis in the new man page text in
> this paragraph:

The parenthesis is ok but groff has problems compiling that section. I re-
posted a cleaned up version of Pau's proposed fix. In the future don't=20
hesitate to post a patch for such trivial things otherwise you will have to=
=20
wait until somebody comes around and does the work for you.

Cheers,
Marek